Design
Design responsibilities
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Work with content authors and developers to provide text alternatives for non-text content.
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Share what the non-text content you designed is supposed to convey to users.
Designer tips
- Provide a place in your design for text alternatives for images and media. For example, you might need:
- Text along with icons and graphical buttons
- Captions and descriptions for complex graphs
User testing and meaningful involvement
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As early as possible in your project, learn the basics of how people with disabilities use the web by reading online resources and watching videos.
- Ilya, senior staff member who is blind | How People with Disabilities Use the Web > Stories of Web Users
- Preety, middle school student with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Dyslexia | How People with Disabilities Use the Web > Stories of Web Users
- Kaseem, teenager who is deaf and blind | How People with Disabilities Use the Web > Stories of Web Users
- Video: Text to Speech | Web Accessibility Perspectives
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Determine if the assistive technology user perceives the text alternative and gets equivalent information from it.